Hmm this was a very failed attempt at perspective… Emily was supposed to be all small and trying to catch up with the closer and larger platypus. They’re just too close together I think; that and the movement lines don’t really work. Oh well, it was a six minute drawing!!

Gosh so I never meant to just leave that story there! To recap, Emily swam into a platypus, which lost its beak in the crash; she took it to her doctorfish friend, but the operation resulted in a rhino head, which it didn’t much like (though as far as I can tell, platypuses are grumpy creatures who really don’t like much of anything).  Now the platypus is swimming off in a huff, or trying to, only Emily is a difficult rhino to shake.

Pfft whoever said a picture is worth a thousand words clearly was not reading my blog. I demand a rewrite – “A picture conveys about half a sentence, at least when it concerns the adventures of underwater rhinoceroses” would be much more accurate!

Vermicious though Vermicious Knids may be, they actually take excellent care of their very cute children. Vital facts Willy Wonka withheld from you, right there!

I don’t think the colour worked on this one unfortunately – I just wanted a slight hint of colour on the Knids, but you really can’t dilute Tombows as much as I had wanted to…

So this is a filthy cheat but I had no time to doodle today; and since this is my current bookmark (and I did doodle it), and I had no time to blogdoodle because I was going to my poetry group, it is at least sort of thematically appropriate.

A poetry group in this instance, incidentally, is exactly like a book group, only for people with short attention spans. It’s great!

Dog walking would be much better if dogs weighed quite a lot less

So very.

Inspired by Guillemots, who when they are small all stand nervously around on the edge of cliffs daring each other to be the first to jump; and when one finally does, the whole colony gets super excited and jumps after them. ^_^

So today I learned that when I grow up I am going to be a unicorn delivering chocolates to sad people, which sounds pretty much perfect, so …hooray!

Also, just in case anyone was trying to find any higher meaning in yesterday’s doodle: there wasn’t any really, sorry! It does have an explanation if you want one: it had turned out that the Snail of previousdoodle fame, which I had drawn on request, is actually a friend of mine (he is generally quite human-seeming when he is with me so I didn’t know this at the time). So I learned of his snaildom, and then we were talking, and he told me some very exciting things about the philosophy of wealth which he had discovered while walking a dog down a cul-de-sac;  but my mind sort of stalled at ‘snail + dog’ and refused to move on, and a doodle happened.

I may be a unicorn some day but I am unlikely to become an economist.